He says a maritime service survey will be the first step in trying to work out how the competing user groups can co-exist safely.

"Things came to a head back in February of this year when we had a dive boat capsize," Mr Page said.

"There was some concern about what happened in that event.

"Fortunately no-one was killed but it was a very dangerous thing that happened.

"There was an attempt (about 10 years ago) as I recall to try and develop codes of practise around use of The Pass.

"But I think this is probably the first time that we've tried to define more clearly exactly how we would produce an outcome that satisfies all those competing uses at The Pass but enables people to have certain freedom to do what they would normally do."